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<blockquote data-quote="TiQuinn" data-source="post: 9492180" data-attributes="member: 4871">Talk where? Here? Or in a business publication?There’s conglomerates and then there’s CONGLOMERATES. Hasbro is a toy and game company that makes the majority of its money through licensing. There are other companies that do this and so there’s investors can compare how Hasbro runs its business to other entertainment companies to create as close as a like to like as possible. Obviously, no two companies are completely alike but that’s what analysts are paid to do.As for whether analysts like conglomerates, that comes and goes. They liked them when they could diversify and be successful in multiple areas and create “synergies”.Analysts don’t like conglomerates when they are caught by surprise because one or more divisions weighs heavily on the rest of the company. They loved General Electric until they hated General Electric. They love Amazon, until one day they maybe hate Amazon.Hasbro is nowhere near as complex a company as those.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TiQuinn, post: 9492180, member: 4871"] Talk where? Here? Or in a business publication? There’s conglomerates and then there’s CONGLOMERATES. Hasbro is a toy and game company that makes the majority of its money through licensing. There are other companies that do this and so there’s investors can compare how Hasbro runs its business to other entertainment companies to create as close as a like to like as possible. Obviously, no two companies are completely alike but that’s what analysts are paid to do. As for whether analysts like conglomerates, that comes and goes. They liked them when they could diversify and be successful in multiple areas and create “synergies”. Analysts don’t like conglomerates when they are caught by surprise because one or more divisions weighs heavily on the rest of the company. They loved General Electric until they hated General Electric. They love Amazon, until one day they maybe hate Amazon. Hasbro is nowhere near as complex a company as those. [/QUOTE]

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